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Show KRAFCHENKO FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER Man Who Slow Banker at Pluin Couleo, in Manitoba, to Dio on tho Scaffold. MORDEN, Man., April 9. John Krafchonko, whose exploits with the Winnipeg and provincial nolico have mado him notorious through western Canada," today waa found guiltv of tho raurdor of Manager H. M. Arnold of the Bank of Montreal branch at Plum Coulee Cou-lee and theft of $5000 Decomber 3. The jury was out less than two hour?. Plum Coulee is a town of 400 inhabitants, in-habitants, sixty-five miles southwest of Winnipeg. Shortly before noon on December De-cember 3 a. mau disguised with falso whiskers and mustacho entered the bank, forced Arnold to hand ovor tho monov, and started to lenvo by a roar door." Tho manager grappled with him and tho bandit fought him off nnd thon shot him through tho heart. The robber ran to an automobilo and forced the owuers, at tho point of a pistol, to drive him thirty-fivo miles to tho town of Osborne. Thoro he disappeared. disap-peared. A week later Krafchonko was arrested in a house in Winnipeg, whore ho had been passing as a collogo professor. pro-fessor. An outfit of women's clothing and two revolvers were found in his room and a roll 'of bills from the Plum Couloc bank was discovered under tho fence outside. A month after his ar-resl ar-resl Ivrafchcuko escaped from jail, but ho was recaptured a week later. At the trial, which began March 18, the crown called nearly 100 witnesses, most of them to provo that the defend ant and tho bandit were the same per- SKrafchenko was sontenced to bo hanged on July 0 next. |